R1 - The journey begins

Intro

A maestro on the bench

Very important for your strategy are the 6 wildcard rounds foreseen, where unlimited trades are allowed. Keep this in mind throughout the season as you are building your fantasy team in order to optimize your trades (4/round including the coach) between rounds. Here are the dates: 

  -- After R6  -  Oct 16 to Oct 21

  -- After R13 - Nov 21 to Nov 24

  -- After R18 - Dec 19 to Dec 22

  -- After R23 - Jan 16 to Jan 21

  -- After R28 - Feb 13 to Mar 4

  -- After R34 - Mar 27 to Mar 31

Welcome to our Euroleague Fantasy Challenge weekly column. Check out our first two pieces ahead of the season, our Fantasy Approach & our Season preview as well as our RHH Podcast video for some under the radar picks.

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Every week we will be announcing the winner of each round as well as the league leader!

     Often in basketball the difference between winning and loosing is the guidance from the bench and same thing applies to this game!  So the coach selection can prove vital! It is definitely the safest route to select the coach that is more likely to win rather than going for the one whose team will win with the biggest margin, though picking up more points is tempting. Here are some data from last season (380 total games), just to give you an idea on the win margins:

The idea of pairing him with the signing of the summer was in the end way too provoking to overlook, so Jonas Valanciunas (15.5 CR) will complement Sasha in a very promising frontcourt. The main idea is that he might be one of the few players to quickly become too expensive to acquire later on. By taking that risk it means we are limited to a filler pick for our 2nd center so we will go with Ousmane Diop (4 CR) who might also get some random minutes. 

***** IMPORTANT: NEVER use your second center as the 6th man when BOTH centers play in T1!!! In case of a bad game by your main center you will be unable to move one of them to the bench and you will have to keep that bad score!  *****

It is a tough decision! At this point we will go with coach S. Jasikevicius (9 CR) mainly due to his team's favorable schedule! This could open up additional trade possibilities over 3 consecutive rounds! For our final player selections we have almost fully exhausted our budget of 100 CR (0.1 CR left)!  

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Guards

As our team is built around Vezenkov, we will be relying heavily on the Olympiakos' star to consistently provide fantasy points in from the forward position. This means that we need to complement him with a reliable option so we are picking Joel Parra (7 CR) who will be an important player for Barcelona this year! We will treat the remaining 2 FW spots as filler picks and choose Stefan Joksimovic (4 CR) and Arjan Lakic (4 CR), both expected to have some playing time so this might prove to be a really good investment at 0 risk! 

On the guard spots our primary selection will be Carlik Jones (13.6 CR) who is expected to be the main figure for Partizan this year and can be our fallback option as captain for T2. Our next pick is the rising star of last season, Jean Montero (12.8 CR) who is expected to contribute a lot for Olympiacos and has a rather favorable 1st Round match-up @Baskonia! For our following backcourt choice, we are picking Iffe Lundberg (8.3 CR) who is expected to produce above his current price! These hey will be the ones we rely on for a good overall budget increase! Finally to close our roster, we will be bringing exciting prospect Mario-Saint Supery (4.7 CR) one of the most promising young players in the competition!

Centers

Τhe RHH Outsiders will need a player to build around. Despite his massive ownership % it is very hard to ignore the PIR king Sasha Vezenkov (17 CR), as he is one of the very few players that might become very expensive to acquire later on.

ROUND 1 VIDEO (S01 E03)

     Welcome to our Euroleague Fantasy Basketball campaign for the 2026/27 season. The journey of our franchise team, the RHH Outsiders begins today! So lets PRIMARILY aim to have some fun and see where this takes us in the rankings!

Here you will find the final lineup of our team, baring any last minute changes!

For more suggestions have a look at our RHH Podcast and our weekly episode where we discuss options and strategy before every fantasy round! You might well find some very interesting alternatives!

The first couple of rounds will be mainly used to boost our budget and understand team tendencies, players' playing time and rotations. 

These fantasy picks are for entertainment only. No crystal balls, no insider info—just our best guesses. Sometimes we’ll look like geniuses; other times, like we drafted blindfolded. Trust your own instincts, play for fun, laugh at the misses, and celebrate the wins!

Your Fantasy GM - The RHH team

In order to stay on top of any last minute roster news/absences, we are using ROTOWIRE and their fantasy section for Euroleague basketball. ROTOWIRE consistently & reliably provides all the latest updates on players statuses even with just a couple of minutes remaining before tip-off! Keep an eye & cut your losses short. 

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